Birthdays, Blessings, School...

The last few days have been pretty eventful. My sister Keri (and Drake and Selina), came down from Utah on Saturday...YEAH! My dad's birthday (don't worry dad, I won't tell anyone your age :) was on Friday so we had a party for him on Saturday. A swimming and BBQ party. Sadly, Maylee and Livia had fevers so they stayed home with Kevin. We usually have chicken but this time we had hamburgers and hot dogs. (Keri was awesome and bought some veggie burgers too!) It was a great time spending time with family that I don't get to see very often. (Matt and Amanda came down too.)

On Sunday was Staten's big day. At only 2 weeks old I was unsure about blessing him, but knowing Keri was going to be here, we decided it would be fine. And it was...no big party or dinner after, just a nice blessing and some family pictures. It was a great day!

Sam was not very happy and did not want to be in the picture. So, Matt tried to help out, but it looks like he is in time-out or something, facing the corner :)

Today was Maylee and Teagan's first day of school!!! They were very excited (one, more than the other). We picked out their outfits and made their lunches last night so we would be all ready for the big day. After I picked them up from school (it was 500 degrees outside, I think Staten got a sunburn from being out there for 5 minutes) I asked them what their favorite thing was. Maylee said "eating lunch" and Teagan said "recess." So, my kids aren't thrilled about the academic part of school, but whatever...

Livia jumped in the picture before I could say anything...and I was in a hurry so I figured it was okay.

I am very excited for when it cools down so we can walk to school again!

I am Grateful for...

At the beginning of the year, one of our mutual activities was on gratitude. I talked to the girls about not only being grateful for the usual things (family, house, gospel, book of Mormon, ect.) but to remember and be grateful for the little things, like chap stick or pencil sharpeners. :) Then each girl made a gratitude journal , in which they were suppose to write something EveryDay that they were grateful for. Well, I thought it would be a good idea for me to make one as well, to help me remember the little things to be grateful for. I've been pretty good at writing in it (missing a day here or there), but something that I have been very grateful for lately is the solar oven that me and Kevin got for Christmas last year from my in-laws. The reason I am SO grateful for it...our oven broke about a month ago. So, it has been nice to still be able to cook things (and to keep our house cool!) I even baked Teagan's birthday cake in it. I have also cooked granola, cookies, blueberry muffins, and a pasta dish. It's actually kinda fun once I got the hang of it.

Here is our dinner from tonight...

The kids loved it! (not that it has anything to do with being cooked in the sun oven, but still...

Not part of the plan

Some of us are planners, others are not. Well, I am.

Last week my doctor told me that he would break my water Thursday night at 9pm. Sounds good, I thought. I was not really wanting to be induced, but breaking my water was a little different. So, Thursday night we ate dinner and then headed to my parents house to drop the kids off. The hospital called right then and said they were super busy and they would call me when I could come down, maybe a few hours, maybe not til the next morning. We took the kids to my parents and hung out for a little while. I was planning on it only being a few more hours (even though they said it could be longer) so Kevin and I decided to go see "Harry Potter" while we were waiting...I didn't think I would be able to sleep anyway. We went to the 10:30pm show which got out about 1:30am. (The hospital had still not called). It's got to be any minute now. Let's go for a bite to eat...Kevin was hungry. So, we went to Denny's to eat and...wait for the call. Nothing. We finally decided to go to my parents house and go to sleep. I laid down on the couch with my cell phone on my lap. I fell asleep (about 2:45) and about 5 minutes later my cell phone rang. Yeah! The hospital said to come down in one hour. Kevin set the alarm and we went to sleep for about 30 minutes.

We get to the hospital and get all situated by 5am (NOT part of the plan...I was suppose to already have the baby by then). Then the nurse tells me that she is going to start me on pitocin...which was also NOT part of the plan, I didn't want to be induced that way. Blah, Blah...4 hours later I am having Major contractions...Major! And I am only dilated to a 5, which was what I was at about an hour before. Umm, Not part of the plan... So, a little frustrated (and emotional) I tell Kevin that I want an epidural. "No, you are doing good." (I told him to say that to me) After a few times of me sweetly asking, he calls the nurse in and I told her I was ready. As the anesthesiologist(sp?) was sticking the 10 inch needle in my back, I was thinking, "this was Not part of the plan!" I didn't want to have an epidural, but I was not dilating and I could take the pain no more. Okay, well at least everything will be easy now. :) The nurse sits by my side and helps me calm down a little while my contractions start to feel a little less intense. My doctor was going to be coming in so the nurse decides to check me. Wow, an 8, that was fast. (I dilated 3 cm in 10 minutes) Dr. Huish walks in and asks how I am doing. "Ah, better, but I feel like I have to go to the bathroom." Hmm..pressure?" He checks me and says "Oh ya, you're ready to go...start pushing." I did...and do you know what else I did? I yelled..not part of the plan (I am not very vocal when it comes to pain, so I was not expecting myself to yell out things like.."this hurts!" and "sweet maria!" After a few pushes baby comes out and Kevin says "it's a boy!" then I say "shut up!" (although we never found out what we were having I really thought it would be a girl. So this was very happily, not part of the plan).

Staten Wayne Lunt was born at 9:55am and weighed 7 lbs 8 oz. (although he was not known as Staten until some time later)




About 6 hours after he was born the nurse took him out to do a regular check-up. She had not come back for awhile and I was starting to wonder what was taking so long. About 45 minutes later she came back with another nurse. She told me that they noticed his skin was a different color and that his breathing was way too fast...among other things. So, they would need to keep him in the special unit nursery for a few days while they did some testing. They took me in there to see him and I did not like what I saw. A breathing tube in his nose, an IV in his tiny little hand, plugs and cords hooked up to machines and monitors that were beeping. And I couldn't even hold him. :( So sad...

The nurses were really great, one in particular that I liked, Margaret...after being in there for awhile and her telling me and Kevin what was going on, she said, "sorry, I know this wasn't part of the plan." She was right, this was definitely not part of the plan. (Like so many other things that had happened the last few days). By the next day he was doing better. His breathing was almost normal, he was eating, and by the next day he was doing great and we got the word that all his tests came back negative and we were able to go home! Yeah...Happy day!


He is the cutest little thing and my kids adore him. It's kinda cute and kinda annoying that they fight over who gets to hold him or sit by him in the car.
Everything is great now, we are at home and doing well. Although it did not go all according to my plan, it all turned out. And I think that is how life is, you just gotta go with the flow.

Boy Teagan...7 years old!

I have a child who is seven! Wow! Time really does go by fast!

I usually let the birthday boy/girl choose the meals for that day. For his birthday breakfast he wanted "cold oatmeal" (one of my favorites too).

I told Teagan that for his birthday I would take him and one friend out somewhere. Like to a movie or out to eat or somewhere fun. He choose to invite his 2 cousins (He couldn't invite one without the other) Gunner and Easton and we went to Jeepers, a small indoor amusement park that we took the kids to over spring break. We headed over after lunch. The other boys had never been there. They went on some rides, played a few video games (actually, just one, a dinosaur one) and played on the big playground. They seemed to enjoy themselves. That is, until they went on a spinning ride that spun REALLY fast and every time they went by I could see poor Teagan's face and he was not looking well. They got off the ride and I thought he was going to throw up. (Luckily he didn't) And his cousin Gunner didn't feel all that well either. We just sat for a little bit and then played a few more minutes and then headed home. I dropped the boys off and got home just in time for my mom and dad to come over for Teagan's birthday BBQ dinner. Kevin cooked up some turkey burgers and turkey dogs.

Kevin and I were planning on getting Teagan a Gecko for his birthday up until a few days ago. He is always asking for a pet of some sort, well, another pet that is. :) But, he ended up with walkie-talkies, which he has played with for almost the past 24 hours straight. I am glad he likes them.

Here are a few pics from Jeepers.

The bumper cars were thier favorite. They rode on them 3 times. And only 3 were working so they got the whole thing to themselves. (Not the best picture, not sure if the flash wasn't working or what...)

This is right when the ride started, Teagan looks happy so far.

After a few spins around, Teagan is not loving it.

Happy Birthday Teagan!!! I am glad that you had a fun day!!!

No one mourns the Wicked...

OKay, so it was AMAZING! I loved every minute of 'Wicked!' After about the first 10 or 15 minutes, I looked over and Kevin was just staring at me..."What?" I asked. "I am just going to watch you the whole time." It was probably because I had a huge grin on my face.

I have listened to the soundtrack for a few years now that it was nice to see the whole musical so I could get all the dialog between the songs...Now I know the Whole story. :)

I loved it so much, I didn't even care that my belly is huge and my feet were the size of GIANT marshmallows! (Seriously...I have never seen them so swollen.) It didn't help that I wore my nice, not-comfortable shoes that my feet actually got stuck in. I had to have Kevin help me take my shoes off during the show.



A few of my favorite quotes...



"Are people born Wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?"
-Galinda

We all have difficulties in our lives...but we Always have a choice!



"I'm through accepting limits, cause someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change, but until I try, I'll never know." -Elphaba


We don't know what we are capable of...unless we try.







I was planning on taking ALOT of pictures but this is the only one we got...

Independence Day

Happy 4th of July!

Mine and Kevin's first 4th of July together, he jumped into Keri and James's pool and split his head open. We had a similar experience this year with Teagan...like father, like son. :) It wasn't nearly as bad (no stitches required) but it was still not all that pretty. And this picture doesn't do it justice. (I wanted to get a close-up of it but he wasn't thrilled with the idea).

Teagan was playing with the girls, chasing them. Well, he ran into their room and pushed the door open with quite some force that after hitting the door stop it came right back and the doorknob hit poor Teagan right in the face. He came out screaming and it was sticking out an inch! I have never seen anything like it. Poor kid! We put some frozen peas on it but he didn't like that so much, so I got a cold wet rag and he held it on there all night.

Our ward had it's annual parade and breakfast. It was pretty darn hot so the parade was probably the shortest there ever has been. And my kids were not as fancy as I was hoping they would be...I had big plans for them, but trying to make it to the park by 7:30 am was enough for me. But hey, they were all in red, white, and blue! :)

Okay...sometimes I get a little carried away. (This is at my mom's house) But I couldn't help it, there were red and blue markers next to the cups. You can't see in the picture but each cup has stars of fireworks on them. :)

Watching the fireworks with Calvin and Izzy, Teagan is in the middle. (Mom and Dad came with us too) There was a show at Mesquite High School so we headed over to Islands Elementary and sat in the big field. They were nothing too special, but you can't have the 4th of July without fireworks!

Any Day Now????

Just a few weeks left until baby arrives. Is it a boy or a girl, you ask? Well, we just don't know. Another boy would be good...2 boys, 2 girls., sounds nice. But another girl would be good too. We of course have a boy name picked out and absolutely no idea for a girl name. (That's why I think it's a girl, The same thing happened last pregnancy.) SO, the last few days I have really been racking my brain trying to come up with something. It's hard enough for me to think of a first name, but then to think of a middle name too...Ah! Too much pressure on my brain right now. But, I am feeling pretty good. Ready, for baby to come. I am getting past the I am so miserable stage and getting to the anxious, I can't believe it could happen any day stage. I know as it gets closer to my due date, if I still have not had the baby, it will be back to the miserable stage. (Hopefully I have the baby before that) But...I can't have the baby before July 8th (which I really don't think I will) because I have "Wicked" tickets and I am Super excited about going! And Kevin and me were wanting to go to the midnight showing of "Harry Potter"
which comes out the 15th. But I am not sure if baby (or me) can wait that long. And I would definitely be okay with missing that, not because I don't want to see it...I love Harry Potter (used to be anti...long story) but we could go see that a few weeks later. But Wicked I can not miss.
It's hard not having ANY idea when the baby will be born. I was a week over with Teagan, 2 days early with Maylee and one whole week early with Livia, but you just never know. All this waiting can be very...exhausting. (I am hoping that this one sticks with the pattern of coming a week earlier than the previous one.)
If I could pick a day to have the baby I would say July 10th. Because you know the baby always comes whenever YOU want it to. :)